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This month’s HackerBox introduces an opportunity to explore retro computing through the configuration of the PICOboot RP2040 Development Board to emulate the functionality of an original Macintosh 128K.

Installing ADB (Android Debug Bridge) on your computer is crucial for Android users who want to unlock the full potential of their devices. This guide will walk you through the steps to set up ADB on Windows, macOS, and Linux, ensuring you can connect your Android device seamlessly.

This tutorial gives you a step-by-step guide on how to install Ubuntu 24.04 LTS or Ubuntu 24.10 on a MacBook Air (13-inch) and get the Broadcom wireless card to work without a hassle.

GCC 15 feature development is soon wrapping up to focus on bug fixing before releasing GCC 15.1 as stable in the early months of 2025. One of the latest features to make it in the compiler codebase is code generation support around Arm Guarded Control Stack (GCS) functionality.

To celebrate that Half-Life 2 has turned 20, Valve has made it free to claim and keep for a limited time. Not only that, but Episodes One and Two are now included. Half-Life 2 has Native Linux support and is rated Steam Deck Verified.

SUSE Cloud Observability is touted as an all-encompassing platform for SUSE and Rancher environments.

At the end of March of this year a Microsoft employee made a ton of noise about Xz when the real security blunder was an imminent (days away) report about Microsoft as a whole suffering a breach, impacting the US government and resulting in espionage (the US government then published a scathing report about why it was Microsoft's fault).

A solid open source rival to Notion and Miro. Let us take a look!

Grep is a Linux command-line utility for searching files for specific patterns that match regular expressions.

Orange Pi 4A is a new low-cost credit card-size single board computer (SBC) powered by an Allwinner T527 octa-core Cortex-A55 processor with a 2TOP NPU and offered with either 2GB or 4GB RAM.

Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due to being GPLv3 licensed rather than GPLv2 to jive with the rest of the upstream kernel code, some of the TUXEDO drivers have now been re-licensed.

Goodbye OPKG, hello APK! Starting in November 2024, OpenWrt's snapshots and future stable builds will replace OPKG with APK for better package management.

After a new snowboarding game built like the classics? Tricky Madness is out in Early Access and includes Linux support.

Tried dual booting Windows and Linux and facing some issues? Fret not, we got solutions to some of your issues here.

Seriously… Fedora 41 is fast. We tested the release and was utterly blown away by the speed. Also, an updated package manager.

I’d promise to shut up about the Tiling Shell GNOME Shell extension but I can’t because new features are coming thick and fast — the latest: support for automatic tiling.

Google software engineer Pasha Tatashin has proposed Page Detective as a new kernel debugging tool that is able to provide greater insight around the usage and mapping of physical memory pages.

IntelliJ IDEA 2024.3, the last major release in 2024, was released few days ago! The release introduced new Logical code structure in the Structure tool window, allows to view classes, methods, fields, as well as links and interactions between components in your project.

It's memory-safe, with a few caveats. Developers looking to continue working in the C and C++ programming languages amid the global push to promote memory-safe programming now have another option that doesn't involve learning Rust.

Open-source software (OSS) adoption has increased dramatically over recent years due to its flexibility and cost-cutting benefits, but whether or not OSS is completely safe is often controversial. Due to its open and collaborative nature, this type of software presents unique advantages and security challenges.